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Overview

Michele K. Evans is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with substantial contributions in subfields such as health, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, physiology, and molecular biology.

The main topics in their body of work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Nutritional studies and diet
  • Nutrition and health in aging
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Obesity, physical activity, diet

Some of their recent publications are:

  • "The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases," 2020, Cell
  • "Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations," 2020, Cell
  • "Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Mitochondrial DNA in Extracellular Vesicles Declines with Age," 2020, Aging Cell
  • "The Accelerated Aging Phenotype: The Role of Race and Social Determinants of Health on Aging," 2021, Ageing Research Reviews

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Alan B. Zonderman
  • May A. Beydoun
  • Nicole Noren Hooten
  • Hind A. Beydoun
  • Marie Fanelli Kuczmarski

Their publications appear often in these venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Nutrients
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Vitamin D–Binding Protein and Vitamin D Status of Black Americans and White Americans

    Camille E. Powe;Michele K. Evans;Julia Wenger;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Folic acid deficiency and homocysteine impair DNA repair in hippocampal neurons and sensitize them to amyloid toxicity in experimental models of Alzheimer's disease.

    Inna I. Kruman;T. S. Kumaravel;Althaf Lohani;Ward A. Pedersen

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • p53 modulation of TFIIH-associated nucleotide excision repair activity.

    Xin Wei Wang;H. Yeh;L. Schaeffer;Richard Roy

  • The polygenic and monogenic basis of blood traits and diseases

    Dragana Vuckovic;Erik L. Bao;Parsa Akbari;Caleb A. Lareau

  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations.

    Ming-Huei Chen;Laura M Raffield;Abdou Mousas;Saori Sakaue

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • microRNA expression patterns reveal differential expression of target genes with age.

    Nicole Noren Hooten;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Myriam Gorospe;Ngozi Ejiogu

  • Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Minority or Poor Clinical Research Participants: Lessons From the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span Study

    Ngozi Ejiogu;Jennifer H. Norbeck;Marc A. Mason;Marc A. Mason;Bridget C. Cromwell;Bridget C. Cromwell

  • Age-related changes in microRNA levels in serum

    Nicole Noren Hooten;Megan Fitzpatrick;William H. Wood;Supriyo De

  • Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels

    Adrienne Tin;Jonathan Marten;Victoria L. Halperin Kuhns;Yong Li

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption.

    M. C. Cornelis;E. M. Byrne;T. Esko;M. A. Nalls

  • Healthy aging in neighborhoods of diversity across the life span (HANDLS): Overcoming barriers to implementing a longitudinal, epidemiologic, urban study of health, race, and socioeconomic status

    Michele K Evans;James M Lepkowski;Neil R Powe;Thomas LaVeist

  • A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.

    Keri L. Monda;Keri L. Monda;Gary K. Chen;Kira C. Taylor;Kira C. Taylor;Cameron Palmer;Cameron Palmer

  • Factorial invariance of the CES-D in low socioeconomic status African Americans compared with a nationally representative sample.

    Ha T. Nguyen;Melissa Kitner-Triolo;Michele K. Evans;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Markers of oxidant stress that are clinically relevant in aging and age-related disease.

    Kimberly D. Jacob;Nicole Noren Hooten;Andrzej R. Trzeciak;Michele K. Evans

  • Trans-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

    Mahajan A;Spracklen Cn;Zhang W;Ng Mc

  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases

    Dragana Vuckovic;Dragana Vuckovic;Erik L. Bao;Erik L. Bao;Parsa Akbari;Caleb A. Lareau;Caleb A. Lareau

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan B. Zonderman
Alan B. Zonderman National Institutes of Health
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Mike A. Nalls
Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Yongmei Liu
Yongmei Liu Duke University
Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington
Tamara B. Harris
Tamara B. Harris National Institutes of Health
Lisa R. Yanek
Lisa R. Yanek Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen

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